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Aurore Y. Victor
Assistant Professor
Legal Skills and Values Program


Curriculum Vitae

B.A., Yale University
J.D., Harvard Law School


Aurore Victor comes to FIU from the University of Miami School of Law, where she was a Visiting Clinical Fellow with the Children and Youth Law Clinic.  Before entering law teaching, Professor Victor worked as a litigation associate with two large law firms in Miami, White & Case and Hunton & Williams, representing several corporate clients in federal and state trial and appellate courts and before the Securities & Exchange Commission.  As a litigator,  Professor Victor also represented children and families on a pro bono basis, most recently serving as an Attorney Guardian Ad Litem while representing a five-year-old child in a Florida state court proceeding.  As a family law and corporate litigator, Professor Victor has gained considerable experience in all facets of civil litigation, including legal research, analysis, writing, drafting, client interviewing and counseling, oral argument, and negotiation.  Before entering practice, Professor Victor clerked for one year with the Honorable Alan S. Gold,  of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.  As a Harvard  law student, Professor Victor worked as a student advocate with the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, initially representing indigent clients in family law, housing, and benefits cases, and after she was appointed Co-Chair for the Aids Practice Group, representing individuals with HIV/AIDS in estate planning and family law matters.  Prof. Victor earned her B.A.in political science from Yale University with honors.

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